After the frustration of printing the invitation cards, I was worried the assembly would be just as much of a hassle, but no! I was wrong. I enlisted the help of two good friends, my mother, my aunt, and my soon-to-be mother-in-law. Quiche, muffins, and chai tea fueled us as we clipped, tied, and glued invitations together. They turned out just what I had envisioned, and despite a tragic tea spill, none were ruined or harmed in the process.
This is the outer design of the invitation. Nathan cleaned up a drawing by Edward Lear, and I used dafont.com to find some beautiful script to write lines from the poem, "The Owl and the Pussycat." I thought I was being original by selecting this poem with no relation to it other than it was a favorite of mine as a child, but it turns out that Nathan's "Granny" (great-grandmother) used to recite this poem when the grandchildren would come to visit. I am glad that it has a family tie as well.
The innards of the design came into fruition from a trip to Michael's. They had a stack of scrap-booking paper in fall colors, and from there, my mother and I created this design: cardstock with the invitation information tied with a pretty copper ribbon to various fall-colored scrap-booking paper. The opposite side of the inside had an alternating color of cardstock glued in with RSVP information. I included postcards as the RSVP card from my aunt's and mine stash of vintage and art postcards. Some of mine included cards from my travels to museums from around Europe. When I was addressing them, I carefully selected cards for specific people (not all, but just a few) even though there were a few in the invitation-making crowd that thought I was a bit crazy. Yes, yes I am.
All in all, I am eternally grateful for everyone involved, because there was no way I could have done all of this on my own. I would have given up eventually and sent out an evite instead. Ha! Thank you Laura, Lara, Cheryl, Vie, and mama Jill.
